 to exotic wine travel. I am your host, Matthew Horky. I am Shurenton. Welcome back to the show. We're talking about Italian Rosato and more specifically Rosato from the Salento Peninsula in Puglia. So before we get started you know you have to know that actually it's very very hot. It's true Mediterranean climate down there. So traditionally locals were drinking Rosato because it's a little bit too hot traditionally to make white wines. This is still has some of the flavors some of the tannins of the red but still it has the acidity and the refreshiness. Yeah it's very interesting when we were in Salento and we're talking to people about oh you know what do you like to drink on a daily basis and most of them would say like more than 90% of the people we ask Rosato. And I like to have it with fish everything. Fish, pasta, everything. We have a couple of producers here that we actually visited. We got these bottles from Salento Wine Shop. So I want to thank them for sending them over. We did visit these producers. We did a video actually highlighting the region supported by a couple of the producers so we're excited we'll be sure I'll put that in the description box as well. Let's get started. In Salento for Rosato it's all about Negro Amaro. You know and Shurenton it's one style Rosato that Shurenton likes a lot. I like that because for me for Rosato I prefer something with a little bit more body, sometimes a little bit more tannins. It's always exciting when your Rosato or Rosé isn't just like all fruit but you know has a little bit of spiciness and other nuances to it. And I think that's why Negro Amaro, Rosato always give me. Yeah so we have you know traditionally Rosato actually handle some tannin a little bit more body. Producers are kind of dialing back on the color a little bit make it more like French style more easy drink but they're still darker than the Producers. Now you can see over here right. Let's get started with one. You want to start with the Meteor one or the easier one? The lighter one. So first we have Santi Dmitri this is the Negro Amaro Rosato 2018. We spent some time with Santi Dmitri the owners Carlo Martin and Eduardo Valone. You want to talk about your experience with their wines Santi Dmitri? I like that they are very very fruit focused wine so they only have one tier of wine you know all priced at about the same range and they have one that is oak right but all their wines are made in a fresh style even for the Negro Amaro red and then they try to focus more on like the health of the food and basically just the fruitiness and its drinkability. So it sounds kind of like you know a little bit boring right but when you taste the one and when it's made of great grapes right it's just perfect you know you just get you get a great idea of what the vintage has to offer. I enjoyed drinking every single one of the wines in the portfolio. Yeah I was surprised. That's rare. Yeah and I was surprised I like what they were doing it's a biggest you know biggest state they have a lot of property and they only have one range of inexpensive wines I was asking what they're doing and they said well they're trying to build up the market before they stood up. So this was one of our favorite wines we have tasted this for Negro Amaro Rosato 2018 made to be a little more provincial in style so it's a little bit lighter in color. Yeah more like a darker salmon pink color. I have tasted this wine right and prior to that I felt that a lot of Negro Amaro Rosato as much as they taste really good they usually lack this refreshing attractive aroma and I remembered Sati Dimitri Rosato has that beautiful like lime-y summery sort of aroma that I enjoy. Definitely with Negro Amaro they get more orange more instead of strawberries they get always more oranges with Negro Amaro. A little bit of this blood orange pomegranate taste in the palate as well. Pomegranate definitely. It kind of looks like sandy. I don't know like each sand. Let's give this a go. I love that it geese wave this is not really tannic but it geese thumb wave and that is really good acidity in this wine right. Light, refreshing, this still has a little bit of bite not like meaty rosés super enjoyable. It's more fruit-driven but since you make a Negro Amaro you always feel a little bit of the spiciness on the finish. I think the acidity in this wine is just beautiful. Yeah like I said these are wines that are meant to be fun and free so scores are actually not as important I think it's like an 87-88 point type Rosato but something that I would really enjoy drink I really do enjoy drinking and I'm gonna have it later actually with the chicken soup. Super or like with fish it's perfect with fish. The next producer is a producer we have a lot of confidence in we think has a bright future uh Vito Maruri this is the Tanuta Panada because it's the estate we're actually going to get the grapes. Coppertino Rosato 2018 Negro Amaro this might have a little bit of multiple chiano in it because that's one of the grapes that is permitted. It's mostly Negro Amaro. Yeah because usually Negro Amaro Rosato tends to look a little bit more orangey copper yes this one is quite red quite pink. This definitely has some color here uh what you're gonna see it's not full fledged uh not full fledged the Negro Amaro Rosato they're trying to make it a little bit lighter we're really a big fan of this producer we think that he has a bright he has a bright future we spend a lot of time with him we tasted his wines before this visit or big fans of this Manone his Negro Amaro that's actually made in concrete anything else you want to add on this producer i just i really look forward to every one of his new vintages you can see the distinct like improvement in every single vintage and and i like the portfolio the portfolio is very diverse okay let's get this in now this actually so funny this it's darker in color than this but it smells a little bit more lighter yeah yeah exactly i get immediately strawberry cream on the nose strawberries yeah strawberry green lemon what you're typically going to expect from a rosato let's give this a little bit i feel like i'm in a bakery you know like a strawberry shot cake with lemon lemon on the side tons of strawberry tons of fruit yeah this is very juicy much bigger on the palette do you touch it it's dry but just touch it with your sugar to build up the body and it's very possible because Negro Amaro has really high acidity so with this kind of body and balance acidity i do suspect that should be a little bit yeah uh but it's very dry it's a very dry why are you enjoying more of the two uh i think i would drink this on its own if it chill it down a little bit more but this is definitely more of a food wine from me yeah more gastronomy i think it's like a little both around the 88 87 point type wine they're very enjoyable they're gonna go fantastic with fish uh with some soup that we're gonna actually have later yeah so if you're in the region don't be afraid to try the rosatos even the ones that come from bulk they can be quite good anything else you want to add on the style of rosato or something that you're a fan of no it's just if you like a fuller fuller body rosato this is definitely for you you would expect very nice acidity from negro amaro you'll get some spiciness you may get some tenants and um sometimes the notes can be quite interesting because some of the rosato that we've tasted right it can be even like early instead of instead of like the refreshing fruit no which is not what i like when it's early but i think some people may appreciate it so guys uh check out these wines i'll put the link to salento or salento wine shop in the description box we're not affiliates but you can check them out uh you can check out our upcoming travel vlog video on salento i'll put that in there as well and if you like this video please subscribe to our youtube channel exotic wine travel we'll see you at the next episode